Aug 22 | MahoganyBooks Meet and Greet with Elizabeth Acevedo - Free event!
Big, BIG, SUPER BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!! A special Meet & Greet this week, August 22, 2019, from 7 PM - 8 PM, with one of the dopest authors out there, our friend, Elizabeth Acevedo. Elizabeth is doing so many great things and you get to meet her this week in-store for a special up-close and personal engagement.
Grab a friend, a student, a neighbor and celebrate with us! Congratulate Liz on all her new being the first person of color to win the Carnegie Medal in it's 83-year history, as well as, having her newest bestselling novel being signed to a movie deal. See y’all Thursday eve! .
ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is a New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X and With the Fire on High. Her critically-acclaimed debut novel, The Poet X, won the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. She is also the recipient of the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award. Additionally, she was honored with the 2019 Pure Belpré Author Award for celebrating, affirming, and portraying Latinx culture and experience.
Her books include, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths (YesYes 2016), The Poet X (HarperCollins, 2018), & With The Fire On High (HarperCollins, 2019).
She holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem, Cantomundo, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion, and resides in Washington, DC with her love.